...OmnipotatoLdelvalleOmnipotato@Cardea in general in the United States, "oriental" is seen as a very backwards/uneducated/dated way of referring to all East Asians. I don't think it has the same connotations as the n-word, but people will definitely look at you weird if you call someone "oriental," and most probably think you're racist.My God, we are discussing perfumes, not place of origin. Context matters, or have we become devoid of any form of common sense?@Ldelvalle In that comment I was answering a specific question posed by another user about the general connotations of the word "oriental" in the USA. Which is why I began that comment with the phrase "in general." In my prior comment I discussed connotations in terms of perfumery. No need to get offended, no one's trying to restrict your speech. I swear conservatives are more sensitive than liberals these days.As if I am offended by your desire to defend the indefensible and still think of yourself as reasonable. The only one offended is you. But yes unfortunately, the hard Right has started playing the same victimhood games the hard Left has been playing for years. Again, this is a silly argument. "Oriental" connotes a style of perfumery. Anyone who wants omit its use is just engaging in Orwellian virtue signaling. It used to be that multiculturalism was meant to celebrate all of our ethnicities and cultural mores, now it become a way to suppress anything that gives affront to ideological purity.  And sure enough perfumery is an international industry, however, apparently the powers that be find it offensive to mention a region within the World of Perfumery.I would have thought they would have started with the low hanging fruit such as, "Panty droppers."

...Omnipotato@Cardea in general in the United States, "oriental" is seen as a very backwards/uneducated/dated way of referring to all East Asians. I don't think it has the same connotations as the n-word, but people will definitely look at you weird if you call someone "oriental," and most probably think you're racist.My God, we are discussing perfumes, not place of origin. Context matters, or have we become devoid of any form of common sense?

...This is just nonsense. Far from making the World more inclusive, this authoritarian movement wants to exclude freedom of thought. As if the term "Oriental" would ever be construed as an offensive appellation and not a word to describe a type of perfumery. It would be quite laughable were it not how dangerous thought control has become.